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Amazon S3 is an online file storage web service. It stores all types of objects through the web services interface. S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. In a web application, the static contents can pressurize the web server, S3 storage helps to load the images and videos quickly to scale up your website’s performance. What are You Going to Learn? Advantages Prerequisites Companies depending on Amazon S3 Terminology used in S3 How to setup and manage Amazon S3 Conclusion Advantages of Amazon S3 Amazon S3 helps to improve the website/web application performance by loading the static contents and reduce the webserver load. Amazon S3 can store any type of file/object in a container which is called ‘bucket’. You can store a single object up to the size of 5TB Amazon S3 allows you to set permissions to the buckets to read/write using unique key and the authentication setup will keep the data secure from unauthorized access. Amazon S3 can be a...

CloudFront is a CDN (Content Delivery Network) service which provides quick and faster delivery of web content. A Content Delivery Network helps the web page to load quickly in end user's(visitors) browser and also it helps to improve the Google SERPs. In a web page, the static contents (Images, videos and games) require more time to deliver from the web server. CloudFront distributes the static contents to multiple edge locations and delivers it to the end user quickly and helps to reduce latency. What are You Going to Learn? Advantages of CloudFront Prerequisites How to Deploy CloudFront How to Manage CloudFront Resources Most Common Problems Conclusion Advantages of CloudFront Amazon’s CloudFront has more than 40 edge locations from all over world to improve the content delivery quickly and with minimal errors. It is much cheaper than any other CDN providers. Since AWS is providing other services like EC2, ELB, CloudWatch and RDS, it is...